Intercourse during the fasting for the expiation of zihar and the method of calculating the two months
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, if intercourse occurs before the fasting expiation is completed, does he restart the fasting from the beginning, or does he build upon what he has already done?
The Shaykh:
If the man who pronounced zihar has intercourse with his wife during the fasting, it invalidates it. He must start over from the beginning. He must start over from the beginning because Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:[Al-Mujadila 58:4] He must abstain until the fasting is completed. In fact, it invalidates it. Two months. Sixty days. Yes.
The questioner:
The company’s doctor.
The Shaykh:
If he started from the new moon, being certain of seeing the new moon, and began from a new moon, he fasts two lunar months. If he did not see the new moon, he fasts two months by count, sixty days.
Honorable Shaykh, if intercourse occurs before the fasting expiation is completed, does he restart the fasting from the beginning, or does he build upon what he has already done?
The Shaykh:
If the man who pronounced zihar has intercourse with his wife during the fasting, it invalidates it. He must start over from the beginning. He must start over from the beginning because Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:
before they touch one another; and he who
مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَتَمَاسَّا فَمَن لَّمْThe questioner:
The company’s doctor.
The Shaykh:
If he started from the new moon, being certain of seeing the new moon, and began from a new moon, he fasts two lunar months. If he did not see the new moon, he fasts two months by count, sixty days.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 60 من 89|شرح العدة في شرح العمدة|كتاب الطلاق|باب استبراء الإماء|صالح الفوزان|الفقه|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:06:38)
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